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If you visit Hiroshima without taking the time to attentively sample the local sakes, then you're missing out. With 50 or so brewers, Hiroshima is one of Japan's three great sake-producing areas, alon...

I am back from a wonderful bicycle ride on the Setouchi Shimanami Kaido. I was a bit reluctant first as I imagined it as a flat boring concrete way, but it is nothing like that. The path is a wonderfu...

After a night in the inn of the Ikuchijima Island we are beginning slowly our second day by the visit of Kosanji Temple. It is an old temple which particularity lies in its buildings built on the mode...

There is no better way to get to know a place in Japan - its past and its present - than through its food. Hiroshima is saddled with a heavy, heavy history that tends to overshadow everything else. Ho...

The next day, our first destination was Mitchan Sōhonten, Hiroshima's most famous Okonomiyaki restaurant.
Okonomiyaki is a savory pancake stuffed with cabbage and meat or seafood, but in Hiroshima t...

Although Hiroshima is one of Japan's most popular tourist destinations, most people leave the area after little more than a few hours and barely scratch the surface of what the city, prefecture and re...

Although Hiroshima is one of Japan's most popular tourist destinations, most people leave the area after little more than a few hours and barely scratch the surface of what the city, prefecture and re...